Deus Ex GMDX: Deus Ex Advancement Mod v9 Released!

[eXalted]

A question out of curiosity.

To go to VersaLife Level 2 you need to go to the Canal Road Tunnel where you lockpick a trapdoor and jump from a great height straight into a pool of water downstairs. As I see that this game always provide plan B for the player if he doesn't have the needed tools/skills, what other ways are out there if don't have lockpick tools?

 

[Excidium II]

You can go through the front door like the first time I think.

 

[Carrion]

A question out of curiosity.

To go to VersaLife Level 2 you need to go to the Canal Road Tunnel where you lockpick a trapdoor and jump from a great height straight into a pool of water downstairs. As I see that this game always provide plan B for the player if he doesn't have the needed tools/skills, what other ways are out there if don't have lockpick tools?

The grate can be simply blown up or destroyed by other means.

 

[Ash]

Going through versalife the official way is more fun. There's a giant spiderbot and a bunch of commandos to fight/sneak past.

 

[eXalted]

Going through versalife the official way is more fun. There's a giant spiderbot and a bunch of commandos to fight/sneak past.

You are not talking about the "Retrieve the sword ROM-encoding" mission right?

For the VersaLife Level 2 I don't even know that there is an official way. Tong tells only about the canal, what is the other way?

And are these buttons supposed to be here?

Spoiler

 

[Black]

Tong tells only about the canal, what is the other way?

The front door, the way you used to get into Versalife in the first place.

 

[Ash]

What Black said. Go via the elevator next to the market by using the employee code.

Buttons sometimes glitch out. Anything with collision enabled that is attached to a interpolating mover. Maybe disabling collision while interpolating will hack-fix it.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Will I get a silencer mod for the UMP?

There's three silencers in the game (same as vanilla I believe). However 1 costs a LOT of money. UMP can be silenced. UMP will also be scrapped in v9.0.

Why remove a gun from the game?

 

[Turrul]

Will I get a silencer mod for the UMP?

There's three silencers in the game (same as vanilla I believe). However 1 costs a LOT of money. UMP can be silenced. UMP will also be scrapped in v9.0.

Why remove a gun from the game?

Design choice I think. Ash probably felt that he shouldn't have put UMP in and make Pistol skill a perfect alternative for Rifle.

 

[Excidium II]

Tong tells only about the canal, what is the other way?

The front door, the way you used to get into Versalife in the first place.

But can you go all the way down the first time, when you are sent to get the sword files? I never tried, only got as far as where you can overhear Bob Page and Maggie Chow talking and turned back.

Because at that point Daedelus already sends you a mail asking to destroy the UC.

 

[eXalted]

^That's exactly what I was thinking. Is there a way to the lower level when you are sent to retrieve the ROM for the sword?

 

[HansDampf]

Yes, there is a way to Level 2, and the door will open if you enter the right code at your first visit. Speedrunners do it that way.

 

[Excidium II]

Hmm but I don't think there's a legit way of knowing that code the first time around.

 

[Ash]

There's not a legit way, and entering the code if you do know it from memory/looking it up is essentially cheating, breaking the plot and spoiling the fun.

Why remove a gun from the game?

The art style is inconsistent with the other weapons and the reload anim is janky. Deus Ex deserves perfection. However I will upload it as an optional download on moddb for those that want it.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

So it wasn't in vanilla I assume?

 

[Excidium II]

Nah.

 

[Ash]

This stuff was mentioned in the v9.0 Announcement.

Good to post it again anyway for those that missed it.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Looks good.

 

[Excidium II]

This stuff was mentioned in the v9.0 Announcement.

Good to post it again anyway for those that missed it.

you can no longer power-throw corpses with the strength augmentation and splat them up walls like tomatoes for comical effect.

This startled me more then once when I accidentally pressed left instead of right click.

 

[Excidium II]

How do I change the ps20 firing mode? I read that it's the reload key but it ain't working.

 

[Ash]

It was scrapped but I accidentally left the relevant information in its description. Resolved in v9.0.

 

[Excidium II]

Oh. Shame. I guess it's less mediocre now since you can carry more than one, but still its main use is letting pistol users break some doors.

 

[Ash]

Eh, in v8.0 it's an insta-gib on standard enemies. Plasma gibbing is another thing that's been scrapped in 9.0 though, because ideally plasma melts people, but that would take a hell of a lot of art work to pull off realistically for such a small thing.

 

[Excidium II]

Eh, in v8.0 it's an insta-gib on standard enemies.

But it's noisly, slow and hard to aim.

 

[Dev_Anj]

Going through versalife the official way is more fun. There's a giant spiderbot and a bunch of commandos to fight/sneak past.

Eh, to me going in the front door after you've got the ROM encoding just feels absurd, especially because you're just stepping back into hostile territory for no reason other than that you don't have a tool to open/blow up a simple grate. From the positioning of those enemies in UnrealED, I can also say that they're not really designed to sneak past but only for a player willing to fight.